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Polymer, vol.343, 2026 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
The ubiquitous nature of helical structures in nature inspired scientists to reproduce the helix at the molecular level to understand more about helix structure and its function. After the pioneering work by Natta et al. in 1955, many different helical polymers have been developed and used in numerous applications, such as chiral recognition, asymmetric synthesis, and circularly polarized light-emitting materials. On the other hand, ways of providing helicity are limited and generally provided by exploiting non-covalent side-chain interactions. To demonstrate that backbone chirality of a polymer may also provide helicity to the polymers, we have designed (using MM), synthesized, and characterized two enantiomeric pairs of polymers having tartaric acid-derived backbone with incorporation of single benzene-based fluorophores (SBBFs). Synthesized polymers were shown to be helical in solution as CD studies indicate. Overall, this study presents a simple and efficient way of obtaining emissive chiral polymers having helical conformations.